Defunding women’s health clinics exacerbates Hispanic disparity in preventive care

David Slusky

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 156, issue C, 61-64

Abstract: To prevent abortions, many states have cut funding for women’s health, reducing access, including to preventive care. Merging BRFSS data with clinic locations from a network of women’s health clinics, this paper estimates the relative impact of an increase in the driving distance to the nearest clinic on preventive care. For Hispanics women, a 100-mile increase decreases the rates of clinical breast exams by 23%, Pap tests by 16% and checkups by 14%. For non-Hispanics, there are no statistically significant results.

Keywords: Women’s health; Preventive care; Ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I18 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.04.013

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